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Curt is a retired schoolteacher who writes about his farm, ecology, faith and other miscellany.

Lis is Curt’s daughter, and writes about travels, gardening, insects, cats and other miscellany.

Eskerhazy is a 153 acre farm located in the area called Quick, B.C. It is near Telkwa, B.C. One of the features of the farm is the presence of a glacier esker that crosses part of the farm. An esker is “a long, winding ridge made of stratified (layered) sand and gravel deposited by meltwater streams flowing inside, under, or on top of a melting glacier.” Being an inveterate punster, I thought of the Hungarian noble family, the Esterhazy ‘dynasty.’ So I replaced ESTER- with ESKER- and kept the ‘hazy’ because our house and the wetland are located in lowland where it is often . . . *hazy* in the mornings.

The main esker itself is actually, say the Wet’suet’en, a remnant of an ancient beaver dam built by giant beavers.

The upland fields are called Top Field and Beaver Pond Field. The soil is glacial till, probably luvisol soils, and not very fertile. They are separated from each other by a lower, east-west esker and Lake Geoff, a small pond we had excavated to restore what was a long-ago small marsh.

The main esker and much of the rest of the farm–80+ acres is preserved from development by the legal establishment of a conservation covenant. The esker is included for its geological value. The wetlands are fed by bog, marsh, fen (I forget all the various names) and the creeks and creeklets that run into it and create a soggy mess that collects moisture, provides wildlife habitat, raises the surrounding water table, and feeds both Robin Creek and Vander Ven Creek which appear on maps as running through it.

Historically, the west boundary was the location of a large beaver dam which stablized the water running in and provided a year-round trickle that formed part of the Robin Creek watershed.